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Carex muelleri Petrie

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Petrie
Petrie
1886
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Carex muelleri Petrie
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Carex muelleri

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muelleri

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Carex muelleri Petrie

Small stiffly erect yellow-green tussocks to 30 cm high; rhizome stout, short. Leaves plano-convex. Inflorescence 1.5-3 cm long, of 5-10 ± contiguous, pale straw-coloured, sessile spikes. Almost dioecious. Stigmas 2.

Carex muelleri Petrie

Rhizomatous; clumps pale yellow-green, stiffly erect. Rhizome 2–3 mm. diam., woody, closely covered with brown sheathing scales. Culms (6)–10–30–(45) cm. × 0.5–1 mm., > lvs, terete or flattened or plano-convex above, terete below, wiry, glab.; basal sheaths dark grey-brown or reddish brown. Lvs 8–25–(35) cm. × 0.5–1.5 mm., plano-convex or with adaxial surface slightly concave, lamina grooved at the back, flattened at the tip, occ. with slightly scabrid margins. Infl. a linear, ± continuous, erect, compound spike 1.5–3–(4) cm. long, c. 4 mm. diam., composed of 5–10 ± contiguous, pale straw-coloured spikes; bracts subtending spikes glume-like, long-awned, not > infl. Almost dioec., spikes either mostly male with rarely a female spikelet, or spikes wholly female, occ. with a single male fl. at the top. Glumes ± = utricles, linear-lanceolate, acuminate or awned, membr., pale green to pale brown or almost colourless. Utricles 3.5–4 × c. 1 mm., plano-convex, narrow-lanceolate, strongly nerved on flat face; beak 1.5–2 mm. long, tapering, with finely scabrid wings and oblique, bifid orifice; stipe 0.5–1 mm. long, hardly contracted. Stigmas 2. Nut c. 2 mm. long, oblong-obovoid, smooth and shining, brown.

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Carex viridis Petrie 1881
Carex muelleri Petrie

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Carex muelleri Petrie
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Carex muelleri Petrie
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Carex muelleri Petrie
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Carex muelleri Petrie
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Carex muelleri Petrie
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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691eddf8-af6e-4e64-b83e-1b3d000ae1ed
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1 January 2000
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